--- title: Games are still good teachers of some things: maps and geography, tr… — Games vs history: tech trees, barbarians, empty… · tree and pragmatics description: Games are still good teachers of some things: maps and geography, trade-offs, cause and effect, and the habit of thinking «what would happen if»; Europa Universalis even ends in 1821 with no win button, a bit like real history, which has no finish line at all. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Games, habit, Europa, real history), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:history:080-games-vs-history-tech-trees-barbarians-empty-lands-wonders-and-falls.lesson:3 # text = Games are still good teachers of some things: maps and geography, trade-offs, cause and effect, and the habit of thinking «what would happen if»; Europa Universalis even ends in 1821 with no win button, a bit like real history, which has no finish line at all. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = history # lesson = 080-games-vs-history-tech-trees-barbarians-empty-lands-wonders-and-falls.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×4 1 Games game NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 3 still still ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 teachers teacher NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 8 det _ _ 8 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nmod _ _ 9 : : PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ _ 10 maps map NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 conj _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 geography geography NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 conj _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 trade trade NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 15 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 14 punct _ _ 16 offs off NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 conj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 18 cause cause NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 conj _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 effect effect NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 conj _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 habit habit NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 conj _ _ 25 of of SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=26:case 26 thinking think VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 24 acl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=24:nmod 27 « « PUNCT `` _ 30 punct _ _ 28 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 30 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=30:obj 29 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 30 happen happen VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 ccomp _ _ 31 if if SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=30:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 32 » » PUNCT '' _ 30 punct _ _ 33 ; ; PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 34 Europa Europa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 37 nsubj _ _ 35 Universalis Universalis PROPN NNP Number=Sing 34 flat _ _ 36 even even ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 37 ends end VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 38 in in ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 1821 1821 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 37 obl _ _ 40 with with ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 41 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 43 det _ _ 42 win win NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 compound _ _ 43 button button NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obl _ _ 44 , , PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ _ 45 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 46 bit bit NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 appos _ _ 47 like like ADP IN _ 49 case _ _ 48 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 49 amod _ _ 49 history history NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 nmod _ _ 50 , , PUNCT , _ 52 punct _ _ 51 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 52 nsubj _ _ 52 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 49 acl:relcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=46:acl:relcl 53 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 55 det _ _ 54 finish finish NOUN NN Number=Sing 55 compound _ _ 55 line line NOUN NN Number=Sing 52 obj _ _ 56 at at ADP IN _ 57 case _ _ 57 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 55 nmod _ _ 58 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Games | good teachers | | | | of some things and maps and geography and trade offs and cause and effect and the habit | tree rules | | 2 | **think** *speech: other* | gerund | the habit *not said here* | | | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 3 | **happen** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | would | | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **end** | present | Europa | | | 1821 | | with no win button | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality PP.subeventuality»: agent=Affector with button=Subeventuality | | 5 | **have** | present | real history | no finish line | | all | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent line=Patient | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. **Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:history:080-games-vs-history-tech-trees-barbarians-empty-lands-wonders-and-falls.lesson:3`. **The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×4. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence. 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